On 9 Oct 1997, Douglas Triggs wrote:
> Well, this seems a reasonable and workable organizational method, but
> since the goal is to have an overall structure that is completely
> flexible, why number the top-level subjects at all?
This works. It would be good because they could all be interchangeable, put
them in any order. Potential caveat is that, for any indexing, you'd have to
not only cite the individual number of a section as well as what chapter its
in. Unless you assigned a prefix number for each chapter, which brings us to
square one.
> On another note -- and this is entirely tangential -- what exactly
> would go into the "Conclusion" section?
For the example I was thinking of a nice term to denote everything that goes
in the back of a book -- appendicies, glossary, reference list etc.
> I don't know what would be best. I'm just not familiar enough with
> all of the tools available. In a way, even TeX seems to be too format
> dependent (print only, more or less).
Right. Partly for this reason I'm leaning toward LyX, which is just a great
program! I see that it is possible to modify the way headings (such as
chapters and sections) are displayed, which is what I'm working on now. It's
kind of a pain but it looks doable, at least theoretically.
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